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arrow-up192arrow-down1imagePublic transit in Toronto, Canada 🇨🇦 vs Chengdu, China 🇨🇳 lemmy.worldDavriellelouna@lemmy.world to Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-21 month agomessage-square121fedilink
minus-squareBloomcole@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down1·1 month agoWrong, the state owns the land but you can own the house, and not just for your 70y BS period. There are plenty of articles like of instances where homeowners don’t want to sell for infrastructure like this: https://twistedsifter.com/2012/11/china-builds-highway-around-house/ I know for a fact here in EU or the US they will indeed " just tells you to gtfo" BTW, in China a high 90% of people OWN their house and aren’t rentslaves. So there’s that China bad man.
minus-squareprotist@mander.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down1·1 month agoIt’s hard to overstate how much safer and more ethical it is to use eminent domain and fairly compensate someone monetarily for their property than to leave their house in the middle of a highway
Wrong, the state owns the land but you can own the house, and not just for your 70y BS period.
There are plenty of articles like of instances where homeowners don’t want to sell for infrastructure like this: https://twistedsifter.com/2012/11/china-builds-highway-around-house/
I know for a fact here in EU or the US they will indeed " just tells you to gtfo"
BTW, in China a high 90% of people OWN their house and aren’t rentslaves.
So there’s that China bad man.
It’s hard to overstate how much safer and more ethical it is to use eminent domain and fairly compensate someone monetarily for their property than to leave their house in the middle of a highway